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Timeline of Sweden during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Netherlands during World War II (1939–1945) Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II; Chronology of the liberation of Belgian cities and towns during World War II; Timeline of the Manhattan Project (1939–1947) Timeline of air operations ...
September 17 – World War II: Operation Market Garden begins. September 24 – World War II: the U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division takes the strongly defended city of Epinal before crossing the Moselle River and entering the western foothills of the Vosges. September 25 – World War II: Operation Market Garden ends in an Allied withdrawal.
World War II, or the Second World War was a global military conflict that was fought between September 1, 1939, and September 2, 1945. The war pitted two major military alliances against each other: the Allies of the United States, Soviet Union , United Kingdom, China and others against the Axis of Germany , Japan , Italy and others .
This timeline of events preceding World War II covers the events (mostly during the interwar period [1918–1939] after World War I) that affected or led to World War II 1910s : 1910 · 1918 · 1919
: Germans defeat American troops in the Battle of Cisterna near Anzio. [2] 3: American planes bomb Eniwetok in the Marshalls, later to be a major B-29 base. 4: Kwajalein, the world's largest atoll and a major Japanese naval base, is secured. 5: The American Navy bombards the Kuril Islands, northernmost in the Japanese homelands.
Notable weapons: North American P-51 Mustang, North American T-6 Texan, North American B-25 Mitchell North American Aviation produced perhaps some of the most iconic aircraft of World War II.
12: American troops begin to land in Nouméa, New Caledonia; it will become an important staging base for the eventual invasion of Guadalcanal. 13: RAF launches an air raid against Essen, Germany. 14: Japanese land troops in the Solomon Islands , underscoring Australia's dangerous situation, especially if, as it is soon made clear, an airfield ...
1: German 1st Panzer Division withdraws from the Terek River area in southern Russia to prevent encirclement. [1]2: Americans and Australians recapture Buna, New Guinea. [1]5: Eighteen countries issue a declaration in London stating their determination to "combat and defeat the plundering by the enemy Powers of the territories which have been overrun or brought under enemy control" and to take ...